The Evanston City Council voted in a supermajority 8-0 to override Mayor Daniel Biss’ veto of a 1% grocery tax at Monday’s meeting, with members saying the tax was needed so that the city didn’t lose $2.5 million in revenue.

Had the Council not overridden the veto and approved the tax, which will continue an Illinois tax that expires Dec. 31, it would have lost $2.5 million in revenue it had previously received from the state.

Earlier this month, the City Council approved the measure in a preliminary vote , only for Biss to announce that he would veto it at the Sept. 29 meeting. The grocery tax, collected by the state and disbursed to municipalities, was eliminated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last year, with the caveat that local municipalities could implement a grocery tax of their own to a

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